Chocolate Lover
Chocolate Lover (Missing Persons)
M. E. Rabb,
Publisher: Speak
ISBN: 0142500429
Edition: Paperback; 2004-06-01
Summary:
Sophie and Sam Shattenberg are two Jewish sisters from Queens, New
York. Both love knishes and kosher pickles. Both have said "Im
wawkin here!" to cab driversand meant it. When the unthinkable
happens and their father dies, the girls are devastated. Desperate to
get away from their greedy stepmother, they withdraw their fathers
money from the bank, pick up fake IDs, and hit the road. All is well
until their car breaks down outside of Venice, Indiana, a town so
isolated that the mechanic tells them, "You could get lost here
forever." Which is exactly what they decide to do.... When Sophie
starts school, she notices a flyer for a lecture featuring Professor
Leo Shattenberg. Could this be their grandfathers missing cousin,
believed to be dead since World War II? At the lecture, Sam and
Sophie discover that Professor Shattenberg has a missing person of
his owna childhood sweetheart who, like him, had a love of
chocolate. Seeing their chance, the girls offer to help the professor
find his missing sweetheartall the time running their own
investigation of him.
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